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Using Earth's Resources: What are the Tradeoffs?

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the New York Science, Technology, and Society Education Project

This teacher's guide and education module contains student problem-solving activities related to the use of the Earth's soil and mineral resources. These materials are developed for use in middle schools. The materials are divided into three units covering the local use of natural resources, the importance of minerals and soil, and sustaining these resources. The units each contain several activities, teaching tips, supplementary resources, and interdisciplinary connections. A sub-set of these activities constitute a project on locating a highway.

The top document on this page contains the Introduction and Table of Contents. The Primary Documents link can be opened to access the units for this module.

This is one of several similar modules and activity books regarding science, technology, and societal issues.

Unit 1: Our Location on the Land
This unit involves student exploration of their local surroundingsdownload 4343kb .pdf
Published: January 1, 1997
Rights: Free for non-commercial use with attribution.

Unit 2: Soils and Mineral Resources
This unit involves studies of properties of soils and minerals, and their importance.download 9172kb .pdf
Published: January 1, 1997
Rights: Free for non-commercial use with attribution.

Unit 3: Local Stewardship
This unit involves students in developing ways for sustaining soil and mineral resources understanding the decisions involveddownload 2465kb .pdf
Published: January 1, 1997
Rights: Free for non-commercial use with attribution.

Using Earth's Resources: What are the Tradeoffs?, (New York Science, Technology, and Society Education Project, Albany, 1997), <http://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12171&DocID=2999>.

Using Earth's Resources: What are the Tradeoffs?. (1997). Albany: New York Science, Technology, and Society Education Project. Retrieved December 9, 2016, from http://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12171&DocID=2999

Using Earth's Resources: What are the Tradeoffs?. Albany: New York Science, Technology, and Society Education Project, 1997. http://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12171&DocID=2999 (accessed 9 December 2016).

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